Chord Media Engine

Nice! That's a wild looking product.



If this little baby had 3 times the storage capacity I might consider it the ultimate jukebox. Correct me if I am wrong, but does not 2.4 Terabytes only equal 510 DVD movies uncompressed. Until we see 1 Terabyte hard drives larger DVD collectors are not going to consider a hard disk based jukebox solution a viable one, myself included.

-Lowpro

Did you not read the pdf?

Protected hot swappable storage
With 2.4 tereabytes of hard drive space, the Chord Media Engine is capable of storing up to 600 hours of film. With the ability to store most movie and music collections, there is still room to add further media engines networked together to provide almost unlimited storage capacity.

Hot swapping hard drives defeats the purpose of even having a jukebox in my opinion. Secondly, 600 hours of film only equates to around 350 movies and that is being generous. That's just sad in my opinion when you can pick up a 400-disc DVD player for as low as $300 dollars now. I would certainly hope one could add additional media engines to the stand alone configuration. It simply reaches on the absurd if you ask me though. I admire the work involved in developing such a product. If there are people willing to pay for such a product and it meets their needs thats awesome. I am simply replying to the subject of this thread here. In my opinion this product falls far short of being the ultimate jukebox. Until we see much larger hard drives hit the market, many won't even entertain solutions such as this, irrespective of the cost factor.

-Lowpro

Well you see here in Blighty multiple disc dvd players never really caught on and there are not many available.

I have been thinking I should recharacterize my remarks with regards to my earlier reply. I am aware for instance that there is not a European model of the Sony DVP-CX985V available. The same changer I can purchase here in the states for $300 will cost people 4 times as much in Europe.

Even at that, this amazing media server is most certainly going to be crazy expensive I'd guess, and seriously lacking capacity to boot. It would still be pennies on the dollar to acquire a DVD changer instead, even if you did have to pay 4 times as much for it. That is of course if there is one available that purchase to begin with.

-Lowpro

Oh yes, about £18k actually. (I couldn't even afford the Integra legs).